Not invented here

Contemplations about tech, software, product development and business. Dima Malenko tries to explain driving forces behind recent and not so recent events and other developments in the hi-tech world and shares stories and ideas inspired by them.

We all love getting infinite amount of something for a small fee. That makes all the “unlimited” plans so popular. On practice, however, those plans fairly quickly turn out not to be unlimited, infinite or lifetime and there are reasons why.

When the way company makes money is misaligned with its values, it can sooner or later lead to decisions that may turn into a disaster of some sort. Similar to what happened to Mozilla with the Looking Glass add-on for Firefox.